From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/24] bnx2x: New FW and support for 578xx Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:54:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20110614.115402.426774711287563448.davem@davemloft.net> References: <201106141213.34576.vladz@broadcom.com> <201106141432.32257.vladz@broadcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: mchan@broadcom.com, bprakash@broadcom.com, eilong@broadcom.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, dmitry@broadcom.com, yaniv.rosner@broadcom.com, dwmw2@infradead.org To: vladz@broadcom.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:38926 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750864Ab1FNPzN (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:55:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <201106141432.32257.vladz@broadcom.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: "Vlad Zolotarov" Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:32:31 +0300 > We also send the new FW files to David Woodhouse. It's the first time we > submit to the linux-firmware git so I hope we don't mess the things up: we > DO NOT patch firmware/WHENCE and firmware/Makefile files in our net-next > patches and we patch the WHENCE file in the linux-firmware patch. Dave, > pls., confirm if it's a correct procedure. > > If it is, pls., note that the bnx2x driver will compile but won't work > until u integrate the new FW into the kernel tree. David Woodhouse, what do you think we should do here? I'm inclined to integrate the firmware into net-next-2.6 since this is the only way to keep the driver working consistently. Otherwise people won't be able to git bisect properly, and that sucks.